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Han Solo Adventures

Does the thought of a freeware, point-and-click adventure game starring Han Solo put a tingle in your naughty bits? Me, too. Luckily for us, one Stacy Davidson is working on exactly that. The website for the actual project is over at http://www.hansoloadventures.com/ and I recommend you attend it post haste. The full game will not feature voice acting, but is described as "interactive fan fiction in the classic adventure game tradition".

It's amazing people still create stuff like this without bothering to contact the copyright owners first.

Bleh, as if you could expect a meaningful answer. Either they'd send a template refusal letter or they wouldn't reply at all.

The clever way would be to just finish this before ever creating a site about it. If you receive a cnd letter AFTER release, who cares? It's out there, and there's always be a way to download it from some czech or russion or whatever site, or a one-click-hoster.
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Yeah, I certainly never understand why people who make this stuff let on they're doing it before they're done other than hubris. Keep it quiet until you are completely finished and bug tested and then put it out there.

Yeah, I certainly never understand why people who make this stuff let on they're doing it before they're done other than hubris. Keep it quiet until you are completely finished and bug tested and then put it out there.

It's amazing people still create stuff like this without bothering to contact the copyright owners first.

Well, asking will get a definite no. I guess this way they feel they have a better chance since the Internets will be on their side? Hopefully their main motivation for doing it was for fun or as an exercise.

A donate button and even a large google ad space at the bottom of the page? It's great if you love Star Wars/Han that much that you're willing to pour some blood, sweat, and tears into making a free game like this, but this individual is making, or trying to make, money off of it. It's a LucasArts property, their most valued property, and they're going to clobber him with the CND club so hard he'll wake up two states away.

Did Lucas ever stamp down on, for instance, Troopers or George Lucas In Love? I was under the impression that he was fairly lenient with fan-made content as long as it was free and respectful/positive toward the source material. I dunno, though.

IANAL

Originally Posted by Gordon Cameron

Did Lucas ever stamp down on, for instance, Troopers or George Lucas In Love? I was under the impression that he was fairly lenient with fan-made content as long as it was free and respectful/positive toward the source material. I dunno, though.

Those were parody (which falls comfortably under fair use) and satire (which falls somewhat less comfortably under fair use, but is still quite defensible). LucasArts COULD have had their legions of lawyers battledance 'em to death had they wanted to (that is, suing until the other guy ran out of money), but ignoring it posed no danger of setting a precedent, and George liked it. Plus anyone caught battledancing in public will be arrested and sent to jail.

The problem with stuff like Han Solo Adventures is that letting it slide could conceivably hurt LA's case in the future if some dev decided to start producing big-budget Star Wars games without permission.

LA never did shut down the Battlefield Star Wars mod, even when they had the battlefield clone SW Battlefront being developed, they're the most lenient of the heavy hitters as far as IP goes, so it has a chance.

I can't imagine that taking donations and displaying ads is helping his chances at all. Making money off someone else's IP? Good luck.

On the other hand, perhaps setting up a website on some long loved IP, sitting back and collecting donations until the cease & desist rolls in, then being blameless in this waste of people's money (which went direct to my bank account, I wasn't foolish enough to start working on anything more than a few screenshots for my website) sounds like a pretty sweet deal.